Access NTFS partition via PCManFM

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xircon
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Access NTFS partition via PCManFM

Post by xircon »

I get an error:




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Nautilus still works OK though.
xircon
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Re: Access NTFS partition via PCManFM

Post by xircon »

Last night I tried accessing my xp partition in pcmanfm as root and it works! very strange.
kgas
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Re: Access NTFS partition via PCManFM

Post by kgas »

I also got similar error but it opens the folders and files all in read only mode.I have already changed ownership of NTFS partition to me and users. But pcmanfm sees the partition in root ownership only. I already installed ntfs-3g 1.5130-1.is it a bug or the way of pcmanfm?
trovador
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Re: Access NTFS partition via PCManFM

Post by trovador »

Hi, I've got a problem with an external usb HD ntfs, I can read the files in read only mode as kgas. i've installed ntfs-3g but nothig.
I can only read does anybody know something about it ?
trovador
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Re: Access NTFS partition via PCManFM

Post by trovador »

I solved it by this line
$ echo ntfs-3g | sudo tee -a /etc/modules or this one
# echo ntfs-3g >> /etc/modules.
Becarefully #
>NO
>>YES
kgas
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Re: Access NTFS partition via PCManFM

Post by kgas »

Hello trovador, which GNU/Linux are you using. In Arch linux I did not have any file named modules in /etc directory. creating the modules file with ntfs-3g entry also did not solve the issue in my case.

Edit: I found a work around. unmounting and then remounting the ntfs partition with rw option solved the problem in my case. This had also been discussed in Arch forum.
#sudo umount /dev/sdbX
#sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/<mount-point> -o rw,users,auto

This can also be solved by setting the hal policy. In this thread you can check : http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11
Last edited by kgas on Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
trovador
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Re: Access NTFS partition via PCManFM

Post by trovador »

Hi kgas, I use Ubuntu,
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